Under Great Chieftain Ero's description, a vision seemed to appear before Iver's eyes.
It was one endless blaze after another, flames that could not be extinguished.
The oases where people could live were destroyed, grain was burned, and homes were set ablaze.
People were left without shelter, constantly driven toward new regions by demonic flames. Then new flames would erupt at the new settlements... People were burned, burned to death, trampled to death, and crushed to death in their panicked escape.
At its root, the reason was that water—the resource most useful for putting out fires—was a controlled resource that ordinary people could not freely obtain in any city of the Parthians. It was "liquid life," more important than wealth.
No one would be willing to take out their own water to put out a fire. Not to mention that trying to douse a fully formed blaze with one person's strength and one person's water... was simply impossible.
As for the Supernatural...
The priests of Ring Angel had no ability to control or extinguish fire, and neither did the Curse Masters. As for hunters, thieves, and warriors, apothecaries and witches... none of them did either. This land was neither civilized nor wise, and it lacked order even more... Thus, there were no Candle priests capable of manipulating flames, and there were almost no mages or alchemists.
Relying solely on ritualists to put out fires was extremely difficult. Even the good masters who had contracts with Abyss Angel did not possess an inexhaustible supply of water, while flames could ignite at any moment.
By an extraordinary coincidence, they had chosen the path that could hurt the good masters most deeply.
Even with water, an oasis could not be created in a single day. The plants would die after being burned, and